Monster of the Day #537

Holy crap, I was watching this last night!

USA played this a few times late at night back in the day, which is where I saw it.  Very little to recommend it, although the ending is so batshit that it kind of has to be seen to be believed.

It’s a movie where kids with black fingernails go around killing people by hugging them, but I don’t remember the title.  So is Evil Kids this week’s theme ?

“No, really. His head was this big when I got through with it!”

Speaking of which, Ken… has a certain Wolf Rilla movie ever made it as a MOTD?  I was trying hard to think but couldn’t remember.

Yep. Can’t remember when, but it was a while ago.

“Beware the eyes that hypnotize.”

This is currently on Hulu Plus, for those that have that.

Maybe it’s just the approximately 2 decades’ worth of bad movies in the interim, but this was not nearly as bad as I recalled. I’m not saying it’s good: the acting ranges from fair to very bad, people get over family members’ deaths waaaay too quickly, the effects are backyard (though sometimes effective for their roughness), and a few characters pop up and disappear to no effect save to pass running time. However, it was a lot better paced than I remembered; my memory was that it took rather too long for things to get going, which was not the case at all. It’s got a few effective moments, including one “Holy @#$%!!!” moment that, even given the premise of the whole thing, was shocking. Sadly, I’d utterly flushed the memory of the final scene from my mind; it was completely stupid and pretty much impossible given what we’d seen prior. Therefore, I’ve decided the main character hallucinated it, after his night of horror and violence, and after violently shaking his head he realizes it wasn’t true, and the survivors go on with their lives.